About

Vijay Pradeep is Silicon Valley robotics engineer and angel investor, and has been involved in the robotics sector for over a decade. He was a Co-Founder of hiDOF, Inc., a Silicon Valley robotics consulting firm, that has worked with Fortune 500 companies and startups in a variety of areas, including VR/AR, vehicle autonomy, medical imaging, drones, personal aviation, and industrial automation. His team joined Google’s Daydream VR effort, where Vijay led the sensor characterization and factory calibration teams, helping to launch Daydream View, Tango, & ARCore.

Vijay received his B.S. in Computer Systems, focusing on Robotics and Mechatronics, and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering focusing on Control Systems, both from Stanford University. His academic contributions have been showcased in a variety of robotics conferences, journals, and books. Vijay’s contributions to ROS (Robot Operating System) and the PR2 robot platform are now used widely in the open source robotics community.

Vijay splits his time between San Francisco, California, USA and St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago.

Contact Info

Latest Posts

As crypto-currencies increase in value, so does the payout from mining them. This creates a substantial economic incentive to not only deploy more mining hardware, but to also develop faster, more efficient mining hardware. We saw this with bitcoin: Mining migrated from CPUs, to GPUs, to FPGAs, and now to ASICs [1]. Today, Ethereum GPU mining is the norm, but the miners haven’t made the jump to running the ethereum mining/hashing algorithm, ethash, on specialized hardware solutions (e.g. FPGAs and ASICs). Plenty of articles and forums attribute ...